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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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